A Pair of camera movements.

1900 and 1909

Price on request



Darling's and Williamson's were very important cameras during the American motion picture Patent War. Being manufactured in Brighton England they were not covered or banned under the American Patent Trust group of companies.  The Patent War caused these cameras to be imported clandestinely as parts to any type of machine other than a camera and then reassembled into a camera once they were here.  If you could buy one of these cameras you were in business until Edison's thugs got their hands on it.


Alfred Darling is one of the "genesis" pioneers of the film industry. Born in 1862 Alfred Darling was working as a machinist and engineer in the motion picture industry before 1897. Just three years after the Lumiere brothers projected the first motion pictures in Paris he took out a patent for a claw operated variable shutter cine camera in 1897. Three years after that, in 1900 he patented the Model M shown here.

 

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